Forward Deployed Engineer, DACH

About the Role

A fast-growing, Y Combinator–backed enterprise AI automation company is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer based in Munich to embed directly with major DACH enterprise customers and help them become AI-native. You will work alongside an Enterprise AI Transformation Lead, scoping, building, and shipping production-grade AI agents and integrations that deliver measurable business value — and feed those learnings back into the core product.

This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at the intersection of engineering and customer success. You will be on the ground with customers, acting as a technical peer to CTOs and platform teams, and leaving behind systems they can own and operate independently.

Significant travel across the DACH region is expected. Native-level German proficiency is required. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the engineer on the ground at major DACH enterprise accounts, partnering closely with the Enterprise AI Transformation Lead.
• Embed on-site with customers, running workshops, hackathons, and implementation sprints.
• Scope, build, integrate, debug, and teach customer teams to adopt production AI agents and workflows.
• Ship end-to-end, high-leverage use cases: complex agents, custom integrations, MCP servers, and multi-step workflows.
• Act as a technical peer and sparring partner with customer CTOs and platform teams.
• Deliver solutions customers can own and operate independently after you leave.
• Identify platform limitations and work directly with internal engineering — often writing fixes yourself.
• Push the product forward by surfacing and implementing customer-driven improvements.
• Automate your own work by building agents that eliminate manual tasks.

What We're Looking For

Dealbreakers (must-haves):

• 3+ years of enterprise software engineering experience delivering production-grade AI agentic workflows for enterprise customers.
• Demonstrated experience shipping agentic AI systems, tool-use loops, and LLM-powered features that operate reliably under load.
• Native-level German proficiency.
• Based in Munich or willing to relocate, with the ability to travel extensively across DACH.

Required:

• Experience shipping a product or feature from scratch in a professional engineering setting.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills with the ability to scope and implement end-to-end solutions, including external system integrations and multi-step workflows.
• On-site customer-facing experience with large DACH enterprises — running workshops, hackathons, and implementation sprints; able to scope a complex use case in a customer meeting and deliver it end-to-end.
• Experience building custom integrations with enterprise systems and MCP servers for agent deployment.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• High agency, high energy, sharp communication, low ego, and strong ownership mindset.

Nice to Have:

• Go programming language experience.
• Founder or early-employee experience at a startup.
• Experience with AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) for building and deploying agents.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: €80,000 – €150,000 per year, depending on experience.
• Early-stage equity opportunity at a well-funded, high-growth company.
• Work at the cutting edge of enterprise AI automation with a team with backgrounds at top-tier tech, consulting, and engineering organisations.

Location

• Primary location: Munich, Bavaria, Germany — on-site.
• Significant travel across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH region) is a core part of the role.
• Visa sponsorship is not available; candidates must have the right to work in Germany.